Every sculpture is Johan Tahon and Johan Tahon is his sculptures. The plaster gives the sculptures something noble, gives them an aura of great purity, but at the same time it shows their vulnerability. That a fluid material can become a hard material in a very simple way remains for Tahon a sort of transformation, which after so many years he still experiences as a wonder, as something magical.
Harmonious sculptures, originating from a feeling of beauty, are transformed into an attempt to depict emotions, feelings, a deepest essence. Those sculptures are then standing there and only then can the real work begin. He makes combinations of objects lying around his studio. The head is removed, another head is attached. A head that is in reasonable proportion to the body sawn off, another head, a material that has been found, is attached.
And then a new tension is created, one that is far more interesting. It is more about depicting the psychology of a human being , of a feeling of being, than an anatomically correct reproduction. It is almost as if the soul of a human being, what it would look like, acquires form.